Poverty & Social Inequality

America has the greatest inequalities, highest mortality rate, most regressive taxes, and largest public subsidies for bankers and billionaires of any developed capitalist country. One of the most likely sources of billionaire wealth is through tax evasion in all of its guises and forms.
For more than 12 years the WEF has pushed a corporate model in Africa, Latin America and Asia. The “big target” has been India, where resistance to corporate takeover of agriculture has been fierce ever since the failed 1960’s Green Revolution of the Rockefeller Foundation.
62 individuals – 388 in 2010 – now own more wealth than 50% of the world’s population. More shockingly, this share of wealth by half of the world’s people has collapsed by over 40% in the last five years.
The US imperial experience over the past century embodies the trajectory of the rise and fall of empires. During a time of declining empire, living standards of Americans have declined, social programs and safety nets have been scrapped in favor of the war economy.
The Commonwealth Games Fiasco: The Shaky Foundations of India’s Cheap Labor Economy By Finian Cunningham, September 25, 2010
Obama Deplores World Poverty: Welcome to the Theatre of Absurd By Finian Cunningham, September 23, 2010
The Failure of American Capitalism: Forty-four million Living in Poverty in the US By Patrick Martin, September 18, 2010
Income Poverty: One in Three Americans Lacks the Income Needed to “Make Ends Meet” By Shawn Fremstad, September 18, 2010
Money for Prisons, Not for Social Services By Haider Rizvi, September 18, 2010
One in seven Americans now living in poverty By Patrick Martin, September 14, 2010
“Life destroyed by Corporate Agribusiness”: Rainbow Pie: A Redneck Memoir By William Bowles, September 08, 2010
Land grabs, biofuel demand raise global food-security risk By Global Research, September 08, 2010
Is the US becoming a Third World Country? By Global Research, September 06, 2010
Labour Day 2010: Austerity, Public Services and the Labour Movement By Prof. Greg Albo and Prof. Bryan Evans, September 06, 2010
The Economics and Politics of the World Social Forum: Lessons for the Struggle against ‘Globalisation’ By Research Unit For Political Economy, September 05, 2010
Government Policy Caused America’s Unemployment Crisis By Washington's Blog, September 04, 2010
A Lament for Labor Day: What Happens When Unemployment Happens to You By Danny Schechter, September 03, 2010
As US “economic recovery” collapses, White House rules out social relief By Barry Grey, September 02, 2010
War, Economic Crisis and the Role of Trade Unions By Sherwood Ross, August 29, 2010
Record drop in US home sales By Barry Grey, August 25, 2010
What You Will Not Hear About Iraq By Prof. Adil E. Shamoo, August 23, 2010
Neoliberalism in the Post Apartheid Era: South African Public Sector Strike Highlights Society’s Contradictions By Prof. Patrick Bond, August 23, 2010
Job Losses and Foreclosures: Harder Times Are Getting Harder By Danny Schechter, August 22, 2010
Revolt Against Poverty in Bolivia: Neoliberalism and Uneven Development By Jeffery R. Webber, August 20, 2010
Axing the Bankers’ Money Tree: Homeowners’ Rebellion against Wall Street By Ellen Brown, August 19, 2010
Pakistan: From Natural Disaster to Social Catastrophe By Snehal Shingavi, August 17, 2010
A Permanent Housing Collapse? By Shamus Cooke, August 17, 2010
New York’s $16 Billion Gift: “Eliminate the State Deficit and Prevent Tens of Thousands of Layoffs and Large Service Cutbacks” By Ralph Nader, August 16, 2010
Restitution to Haiti of French Ransom estimated at more than $22 billion By Global Research, August 16, 2010
Profits Up at GM! And You’re Still Unemployed By Michael Moore, August 16, 2010
VIDEO: The Other US Eco Disaster: Mountain Top Removal By Global Research, August 15, 2010
Corpulent Country. Obesity in the USA. By John Kozy, August 02, 2010
“Let Them Eat Cake”: A handful of oligarchs are becoming billionaires while the rest of the country goes down the drain By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, July 31, 2010
VIDEO: “White Power USA”: The Crisis of Race in America By Rick Rowley and Jacquie Soohen, July 27, 2010
Cutting the Budget Deficit Undermines Social Security and Medicare, Depresses Purchasing Power By Kevin Zeese, July 22, 2010
The U.S. Middle Class Is Being Wiped Out By Michael Snyder, July 20, 2010
Working People in America impoverished by Obama’s Economic Policies: Labor Fights Back for Living Wages and Jobs For All By Shamus Cooke, July 20, 2010
More than one million American households are likely to lose their homes to foreclosure this year By Global Research, July 15, 2010
Collapse in Living Standards in America: More Poverty By Any Measure By Christine Vestal, July 14, 2010
A Global Push for Reducing Poverty? Millennium Goals Revisited: Noble Ideas, and Feel-Good Moments By Ramzy Baroud, July 01, 2010
US Ranks Last Among 7 Countries on Health System Performance By Commonwealth Fund, June 26, 2010
Easing of Israel’s Siege May Have Negligible Effect on Gaza By Amira Hass, June 22, 2010
“Let’s Chant: Free, Free Palestine”: Western Public Opinion in the Wake of the Attack on the Freedom Flotilla By Kourosh Ziabari, June 20, 2010
Nearly One Million US Workers Cut Off Unemployment Benefits By Patrick Martin, June 19, 2010
Twenty-Two Reasons Why American Working People Hate the State By Prof. James Petras, June 18, 2010
World Cup Soccer In Africa: Who Really Wins? By Craig Tanner, June 14, 2010
Warning of Famine in West Africa By Barry Mason, June 12, 2010
Social Crisis in America. Coming Soon: Corporate Town Halls Against Social Security By Shamus Cooke, June 06, 2010
BREAKING NEWS: Lone Ship MV Rachel Corrie on the Way to Gaza By Global Research, June 04, 2010
Israeli Citizens Denounce Their Government: Call on the World’s Governments and Civil Society Organizations By Global Research, June 04, 2010
What Are Some of the Structural Inefficiencies of the World Bank? By Global Research, June 03, 2010
The Israeli Blockade of Gaza Violates International Law By Brian Palmer, June 02, 2010
Dead: 19. Injured: 60. This is Israel. Appeal of the BRussells Tribunal. By BRussells Tribunal, June 01, 2010
Israel the Rogue State By Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad, June 01, 2010
VIDEO: Storming of Gaza Aid Convoy By Global Research, June 01, 2010
VIDEO: Israeli Terrorists Attack Innocent Humanitarian Flotilla and Kill 20 and Wound over Fifity By Global Research, June 01, 2010
VIDEO: Arrest of Aid Activists After Israeli Raid By Global Research, June 01, 2010
Israeli Military Attacks Humanitarian Aid Boat By Billy Wharton, May 31, 2010
Gaza Aid Convoy Attack: Israel’s Murderous Sea Piracy a Horrendous Moment of Truth for US Policy By Finian Cunningham, May 31, 2010
VIDEO: Millions of Displaced Colombians Demand US Respect Human Life, Not Money By Global Research, May 30, 2010
Flotilla to Gaza: “A Battle for the High Seas. And the High Ground” By Lauren Booth, May 30, 2010
Free Gaza Flotilla Subject to Coordinated Israeli Government Media Campaign and Military Action By James Marc Leas, May 29, 2010
Immigration: Don’t Let “Reform “Be an Excuse for Increased Repression By Michael Lerner, May 29, 2010
Israel’s Military Command Says Will Stop Flotilla, but Transfer Supplies to Gaza By Hanan Greenberg, May 28, 2010
Toronto’s Communities Prepare for the G8 and G20 Summits By Syed Hussan, May 27, 2010
Israel’s Strange Behaviour on Flotilla to Gaza By Irish4Palestine, May 26, 2010
Israel’s Nuclear Bomb Out of the Shadows By Jonathan Cook, May 26, 2010
VIDEO: Jamaica Declares State of Emergency After Obama Demands Arrest of “Robin Hood” Drug Lord By Kurt Nimmo, May 26, 2010
The European Ship Sails for Gaza By The European Campaign to end the siege on Gaza, May 25, 2010
US Funds Israel’s Apartheid Road in the Palestinian West Bank By Mel Frykberg, May 25, 2010
Members of Swedish Parliament Demand Security for Ship to Gaza By Free Gaza Movement, May 24, 2010
Latin America’s New Middle Class Rulers: Stabilization, Growth and Inequality By Prof. James Petras, May 22, 2010
Global Crisis: The Time of Testing Is Here By Richard C. Cook, May 22, 2010
Arab Israeli barred from Public Sector employment By Jonathan Cook, May 21, 2010
Justice for the People of Gaza: Gaza Fever By Greta Berlin, May 21, 2010
Freedom Flotilla en Route to Gaza to Deliver Aid By Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East, May 21, 2010
Haitian Farmers to Burn Donated Monsanto Seeds By Bev Bell, May 19, 2010
Bolivia: Between Mother Earth and an ‘Extraction Economy’ By Federico Fuentes, May 18, 2010
VIDEO: Economic Crisis Spreads Unrest Globally By Andrew Gavin Marshall, May 18, 2010
Massacre in Thailand and Obama’s Foreign Policy Stance By Shamus Cooke, May 17, 2010
Financial Fraud. How It Works. The Truth behind the Madoff Investment Scandal By Sherwood Ross, May 16, 2010
Arizona’s War on Immigrants By Dahr Jamail, May 16, 2010
Sweatshop Manufacturing: Engine of Poverty By Gregory Elich, May 16, 2010
US Funds Israel’s Apartheid Roads Plan By Jonathan Cook, May 15, 2010